This is the code I'm trying to make work...
"=IF (C11>0, "+",OTHERWISE "")
Trying to make it so that if the cell nect to it "C11" is over "0" It gets a "+" sign, otherwise if it's a negative number, Ex "-5", nothing will show up since the sign is negative.
This is my workaround to having to insert the apostrophe in front of the + everytime I want it to show up outside of a formula interaction.
Select every cell that you want to format (use ctrl-a to select all cells).
In the Format menu mouse-over Number, then mouse-over More Formats and select Custom Number Format. In the box presented to you type +0.00;-0.00.
Press Apply. This will format your numbers as desired.
See the Google Sheets documentation for more details.
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I have a sheet called "Test". Column B shows dynamic API calls, then I use a macro to copy all cells from Column B to Column C every 1 hour in order to store those prices, however sometimes API call fails, so it shows 0. I want to mass replace all cells containing "0" (match exact case) from all columns of sheet "Test" without changing Column B (which is the column for the API calls so we don't want to change its formula).
How can I do that?
Thank you!
Google sheets doesn't have this function yet but this could do the trick:
Select all cells (Ctrl + A) click Format > Conditional Formatting
Use the dropdown to select Equal To and type 0
Tick the text tickbox and change the text color to white, this will
effectively hide all your zero values.
You can define a format as
0;-0;
I have a table in MySQL (really is a "View") that I changed the Name. It was used in a Calc spreadsheet Control (Text box and clicked on it) to update some cell contents. After the Name change Calc control does not work. I searched Internet, played with Calc all day and could not a fix so far. Basically, in "Define Database Range" window the "Source" section on the bottom is empty, and it is not editable. The macro runs without error but produces nothing. Why is the "Source" empty, and how to set it up to the proper source?
Finally figured out - maybe not the best solution.
Data>Define range>Select the range with problem (source missing for some reason)
Data>Define range: recreate the same range with desired name
Ctrl+Shift+F4 will open up Mysql data source; select the desired table or query; content will appear in the top right window
Click on the top left corner of the output table; Data-to-text icon will appear in row above
Click on Data-to-text icon and the table will be inserted into the active range in the spreadsheet
Now the Data>Define range selected range will have the proper SOURCE filled in as the data source of the range
Last, I had to recreate the macro that is assigned to the Text box Control. The macro is Data>Select Range + Data>Refresh Range + whatever else...
Now my original method of clicking on the text box to refresh data in the spreadsheet from MySQL works again!
I have certain product codes with varying number of letters/digits e.g. 53HD6J, HH88WBD3 (varies between 5 to 10 letters/digits). In order for our barcode to scan these correctly there has to be 13 letters/digits. I don't want to make the user to input -XXXX after each code but rather have Access calculate the difference between 13 and the length of the code and fill the remaining with a X's. Is this possible either by vba or and expression?
I currently am using about 6 IIFs in one formula to fill remaining blanks with X's but hoping there is an easier way.
I have a form to enter in the batch number (product code). Once that form is submitted it links to a report that is printed. On the report are those batch numbers (53HD6J, HH88WBD3). The spot I want to have this feature is in a text box right next to the codes where Access determines the length of the codes and computes the remaining X's to add. This is in barcode font so this text box is where the 53HD6JXXXXXXX would go. Hope that clears it up!
So I have that part figured out. My problem now is my barcode font reads the text no matter what and translates it still so barcode shows up when the batch number is blank (I have four spots for batch codes to be inputted). So what I had before was =IIf([Text31]="",""&[Text31]&"","") which seemed to work. Hopefully I can continue this with the new formula. If that's unclear let me know.
**(The "" & & "" is so the barcode can be scanned).
My formula was wrong right above with the IIf. I figured it out! Forgot I had used ' Like "*" '. Thanks!
You can do what you want with String() and Left().
Here is an example from the Access Immediate window:
product_code = "53HD6J"
? product_code & String(13, "X")
53HD6JXXXXXXXXXXXXX
? Left(product_code & String(13, "X"), 13)
53HD6JXXXXXXX
Based on the update to your question, I think you can use that approach for the Control Source of a text box where you want to display the "expanded" product code.
Pretend your report has a text box named txtProduct_code where the raw product code, such as 53HD6J, is displayed. And there is a second text box where you want to display that value with the required number of X characters (53HD6JXXXXXXX).
Use this as the Control Source property of that second text box:
= Left([txtProduct_code] & String(13, "X"), 13)
Alternatively, you could make it a field expression in the report's Record Source query.
SELECT
product_code,
Left(product_code & String(13, "X"), 13) AS expanded_product_code
FROM YourTable;
The problem is hard to explain ,
I have an access report with a stacked bar chart to show the percentage fills over time like the one in this example : Click here
The legend for the chart i have is a number followed by the name, for e.g
1-Mango
2-Apple
3-Banana
etc
I want to sort this according to the above format but when i have more than 10 items the 10-Pineapple comes before 1-mango when it should appear after 9-somefruit .
The underlying query for the access report uses a Cross Tab query in which the items are created as
Column heading:[PrefixPriorityNumber]&"-"&[FruitName]
I even used the Sort:Ascending but it still doesnt affect my custom ordering that i wanted to show.
I also tried to google "sorting alpha numeric strings" but this is clearly more than that.Any assistance is appreciated
The problem is you are getting a text sort. You need to format the prefix number.
Column heading: Format([PrefixPriorityNumber], "00") & "-" & [FruitName]
Either use another digit, as Remou suggests (01 instead of 1) or start using letters. A > 9, B > A, etc.
I have SSRS solution for SQL 2005 and 2008.
I am showing output in the form of chart- column chart with each column representing different database.
Is there a way to display each column in different color?
Regards
Manjot
You can use a formula to set the colour of each column, but that would work best if you knew what the individual series values ('databases'?) were going to be.
Right-click on your chart and bring up its properties. Now switch to the Data tab and select the first item in the Values list. Click the Edit... button to show the properties for the values (the columns) in your chart. Over on the Appearance tab there's a Series Style... button which takes you to another dialog.
On this new Style Properties dialog, switch to the Fill tab. That's where you set the colour for each of your columns. This can be a formula, so you might make it something like:
=Switch(
Fields!Database.Value = "master", "Blue",
Fields!Database.Value = "msdb", "Red",
"Green")
If you don't know in advance which 'databases' are going to be represented on the chart, this method won't work very well. In that case you might be able to come up with a formula which hashes the database name and comes up with a colour to match. That sounds like an interesting challenge, so add to your question if you need help doing something like that.
Edit
I just got a hash-based-colour-scheme working. It's a pretty nasty piece of code, but it did manage to get me a unique colour for every (string valued) column. Perhaps someone can come up with a better algorithm and post it here. Here's mine:
="#" & left(Hex(Fields!Database.GetHashCode()), 6)
So that's getting the HashCode for the string (a numeric value) and converting it to hex, then taking the leftmost six characters and prepending it with a "#" sign. That gives us a string that looks like a colour value (eg #AB12F0).